making noise to pee

[Cairo]

Our dog cairo is 14 months old and is house trained, sort of....... we take him out to pee every so often but if we leav him, he will not let us know and pee on the floor on his way to the door. He will sit by the door sometimes but will not make a peep so if we are busy and dont see him he will pee on the floor. we have tried:
1) taking his paw and scraping the door with it, then prasing him when he pee's
2) bells on the wall next to the door and getting him to ring it with his paw and again praising him when he pee's

PLEASE someone help us.
thank you so much for all your advice so far

CAIRO

 

[NateBazooka]

Preface: I have not done bell training or any such thing with my dog. I live in a small place, so it's easy for me to tell when he needs to go out. Hopefully someone with more experience with this will chime in, but these are just the thoughts I had when I read your post (btw, not at all what I was expecting this to be about from the title - I thought maybe your pup was like... barking while he was peeing or something )


For how long and how consistently did you try getting the dog to ring the bell or scratch the door to go out? I would be wary about teaching the dog to scratch the door, unless you don't care about the door getting destroyed. What I would try is, if the bells near the door are not already up, put them up. Every single time you take the dog out, jingle the bells. I don't think you need to make the dog jingle the bells, I think you just need to make the jingling of the bells become part of the process of going outside. And you need to do this consistently and be patient. I think at some point the dog will "get" that in order to go out, the bells need to be jingled, and he will take it upon himself to get them jingled if he really needs to go out. I know if my dog wants to go out, he goes and sits by the door, and if I don't take action relatively quickly, he'll start pawing at his leash, sniffing at the door knob, looking at me, and eventually he'll get the leash off of the doorknob of the closet (where it hangs) and start chewing on it, at which point I always take him out because I don't want him to eat or destroy his leash. Ha, case in point that they're training you at the same time you're training them....

 

[Althea]

Take his nose or paw, and have him make the bells jingle, followed by the door opening. I've trained three dogs to do this, and it works quite well. Give it a month of consistent bell-ringing to finally click for your pooch.

The other option is to have a more consistent schedule. I have two smaller dogs that I didn't bell train, but we let them out consistently 3-4 x a day. We haven't had any accidents in quite some time. The ONLY time we do is if we have company and WE forget to take them out.

 

[RockyCody]

Bell training

I also taught Rocky how to ring the bells when he has to go outside. It took me one weekend - but he was little and in that "learning" stage so I think we got lucky.

Consistency is key. Make sure you take him out - have the paw/head touch the bells and open the door. Go out with him - after he pees LOTS and LOTS of praise.

You could even break it down and train what "bell" means - after he hits it say "Yes....BELL" and treat then go outsie and say go potty and then treat again.

Eventually they will connect them. Just be patient. It's awesome for us now...except sometimes he rings the bell just to go outside now that the weather is nicer. Which is fine, but I dont' let him back in until he potties.

 

[Boxerrr]

For us, we've taught Bella to ring the Bell when she wants outside... we didn't even need to show her how to ring the bell... we simply rang the bell every time we opened the door over the course of a weekend. She figured it out, and the first time she rang it on her own we made sure to spring to the door, open it, then praise her immediately.

She was about 7 months when she got it.

 

[sunspot]

I agree with all thats been said about patience. Some dogs will get it right away others a little longer is required, but make the ringing part of the routine of opening the door. Put them on the handle and be sure that they ring whenever touched so the dog can do it easily. Make a huge deal out of any attempt to ring them that the dog does and treat every time they ring. Don't worry if they use it as a treat dispenser for awhile. Mine girl did this at first but while she was outside realized she had to go anyway and after awhile we fazed the treats out. It was amazing how relieved my Rosie girl was after i gave her a way to "communicate" to me what she needed. We had noticed that any mistakes she made in the house were ours because we weren't paying enough attention to when she had to go.She learned the bells in 3 hrs. (no lie! ) and since then has not had an accident in the house. That was in November when she was 5 mo. old We had gotten used to her holding it all night and just weren't realizing she had no way to tell us she had to go out. Keep it up and truely you will get that "lightbulb moment" when they get it.

 

[DelmariasMom]

We used the bell method for Delmaria and it is great. It took about 4 days of us ringing the bell every time we took her out before she did it herself, she was about 3 months old then. But after just a couple weeks she was a pro. I don't know where others hang their bell, we put a nail in the wall on a level that was easy for her to reach because she wouldn'y have been able to reach it on the knob when she was that little. She's 5 months now and we havn't had any accidents in almost a month. Good luck!!

 

[avaboxer]

Potty Training

Ava has learned to whine after a long time coming. She stays in her crate at night and if she has an "accident" she goes outside than to the crate if she doesn't go outside for about thirty minutes. She likes to be inside with me so it works well for us. I just got new floors before bringing her home so there was no dog scent on them. We also use a good odor blocker on the floors.